# cavo
## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈka.βu]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈka.vo]

### Verb

cavo
* first-person singular present indicative of cavar

## Galician
### Verb

cavo
* first-person singular present indicative of cavar

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈka.vo/
* Rhymes: -avo
* Hyphenation: cà‧vo

### Etymology 1

From Latin cavus.

#### Adjective

cavo (feminine cava, masculine plural cavi, feminine plural cave)
* hollow

##### Derived terms

* vena cava

### Etymology 2

From Latin cavum, cavus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱówHwos (“cavity”).

#### Noun

cavo m (plural cavi)
* hollow, cavity
    Synonyms: incavo, cavità

#### Verb

cavo
* first-person singular present indicative of cavare

##### Related terms

* cava
* cavare

### Etymology 3

Probably borrowed from Portuguese cabo or from Genoese, ultimately from Latin capulum.

#### Noun

cavo m (plural cavi)
* cable
* rope
* wire
* hawser

##### Derived terms

* misuracavi

### Further reading

* Maiden, Martin. 1995. A linguistic history of Italian. London: Longman. Chapter 2, §7.2.

### Anagrams

* cova, vaco, vacò, voca

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *kawāō. Equivalent to cavus (“hollow”) +‎ -ō; related to Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌅𐌄 (cave).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈka.u̯oː/, [ˈkäu̯oː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈka.vo/, [ˈkäːvo]

### Verb

cavō (present infinitive cavāre, perfect active cavāvī, supine cavātum); first conjugation
* to make hollow, hollow out, excavate
* to perforate, pierce

#### Synonyms

* cavernō

#### Derived terms

* excavō
* cavāmen

#### Related terms

* cavātus
* caverna
* cavernātim
* cavernō
* cavernōsus
* cavernula
* cavōsitas
* cavum aedium
* cavus

#### Descendants

* Asturian: cavar
* Catalan: cavar
* Friulian: gjavâ
* Galician: cavar
* Italian: cavare
* Occitan: cavar
* Old French: chaver, chever
* Papiamentu: koba
* Portuguese: cavar
* Sicilian: cavari
* Spanish: cavar
* Venetan: cavar

### References

* “cavo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “cavo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* cavo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to prescribe in one's will: testamento aliquid cavere (Fin. 2. 31)

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈka.vu/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈka.vu/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈka.vo/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈka.vu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈka.vu/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /ˈka.bu/ [ˈka.βu]
* (Northern Portugal) IPA: [ˈka.βu]
* Rhymes: -avu, (Northern Portugal) -abu
* Homophone: cabo (Northern Portugal)
* Hyphenation: ca‧vo

### Verb

cavo
* first-person singular present indicative of cavar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkabo/ [ˈka.β̞o]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -abo
* Syllabification: ca‧vo
* Homophone: cabo

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin cavus (“concave, hollow”, adjective).

#### Adjective

cavo (feminine cava, masculine plural cavos, feminine plural cavas)
* concave
    Synonym: cóncavo

##### Derived terms

* pie cavo
* vena cava

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin cavum, cavus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱówHwos (“cavity”).

#### Noun

cavo m (plural cavos)
* burrow, den
    Synonym: madriguera

##### Related terms

* cava
* cavar

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

cavo
* first-person singular present indicative of cavar

### References

* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “cavo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

### Further reading

* “cavo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10